Good morning cheaters! How’s your extracurricular relationship? Did you remember to erase all the texts and emails he or she sent you before your wife or husband could read them? If not, you’re a lazy cheater and you should be banished from the wonderful Professional Cheaters Corp. It’s not something you improvise, it takes years and years before being able to tell your wife you’re going to a greyhound racing while you’re actually doing another kind of dogging. Tony Piro provides us today a comic inspired by the failure of cheating, and we provide you with his interview!

What's your name?Tony Piro

How old are you?Tony Piro : 31

Where do you live? (If you moved for example)Tony Piro : Berkeley, CA

What are your projects?Tony Piro : My main project is Calamities of Nature, my online comic. I also do some astrophysics from time to time, but that doesn't involve much drawing. ;)

What inspires you (artists, movies, etc...)?Tony Piro : Ideas inspire me. I'm always looking for interesting and new ideas, because this is usually what informs my comic strips. Whenever I have writers block I'll go check out some books on popular science or read some philosophy or whatever else I can get my brain working. I think it's pretty fun that I've developed my comic in such a way that just by learning, I'm creating material fornew comics.

What makes you laugh the most?Tony Piro : Uncomfortable truths.

Why did you choose to come back?Tony Piro : I might have said this in my previous interview, but FML is pretty hit and miss for me. I like the ones that show a simple honesty about life's foibles. Other FML entries can be pretty embarrassing and mean, and I don't enjoy those as much. The particular one that I found was just a simple event, but it opened up my imagination to all sorts of other interesting implications. So it was fun to just run with it, and that's how I got the comic I eventually created.

Do you have your own FML anecdote that you can share us?Tony Piro : My own FML? With two kids there are many times per day where I think FML, but it's usually in an OMG way, not a vengeful FML!!! Things happen, like you check a diaper and get a hand full of shit, or your kid projectile vomits on you from 6 inches away, or you ask your kid for help and you get back a super-sassy answer. At the time you think FML, but really, later you think back and just laugh. It's all part of the fun of being a parent.

Clic to see the illustration on FMyLife.com

That’s why we have 40 anecdotes in the FML kid’s section we guess.Thanks Tony for taking part a second time, we still love you thiiiis much! (And we’re already planning on cheating on you next week, with Maxime Dupont)

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Hi everyone! We hope you had a great week because August has just started and it can only mean one thing: for some unlucky people, school has started again, and for others, the summer holidays are nearly over, time to go back to the office and pretend to be working on that project when in fact you’re building stuff out of paper clips. September is just around the corner, so if you’re still on holiday you’d better try to have some fun before you’re back listening to (and trying to understand) your maths teacher or your management’s expectations. Here at FML, to forget this painful thing that we like to call “the world where alarm clocks ring before noon”, we’ve decided to not only provide you with illustrations and comics, they’ve been lovingly created by artists that we’ve already featured, that you loved, that we love.

We start off today with Sara Bloem!

What are your currents projects?

Sara : Every summer, the video productions company where I work right now has its summer interns write, direct, produce, and shoot a dorky intern training video. Right now I'm doing the storyboarding, and later I'll be putting in some cool special effects in After Effects in post-production. It's sort of James Bond/Karate Kid-themed, so I also get to play the wise Asian mentor who whaps the star with a cane, speaks without l's, and drives poorly. I guess it's not racist because I'm Asian!

What inspires you?

Sara : I love Berlin-based Chiharu Shiota's thread-wrapped pieces, Rene Engström's comic-ing, and James Turrell's light installations. Yesterday I was illicitly absorbing the latest issue of Hi-Fructose in the Borders across the street from where I work, being a cheap person, and I really loved their feature on Beth Cavener Stichter, who sculpts beautiful and profoundly unsettling animals in stoneware (rather NSFW). Much of the aesthetic I'd like to emulate, actually, comes from fields outside of illustration. I like reading tech and design blogs like Gizmodo and Dezeen. I want to try to integrate that kind of modern concern with simplicity and pure form into illustration. In my very humble opinion, I think that the more one looks out of one's own particular field, the greater the freshness and originality one brings to the table.

What makes you laugh the most?

Sara : Probably just the silly things my friends and I talk about. And videos like this one.

Why did you choose this FML?

Sara : I thought it was a sweet and poignant, if horribly sad story! It sounded like a chick flick about to take off except it ended with still more disappointment and regret. I hope OP has had better luck with the ladies since - but if not, that's totally okay! You don't need a relationship to lead a fulfilling, purposeful, goal-driven life studded with Nobel Prizes and international accolades!

Do you have your own FML anecdote that you can share with us?Sara : For several years before college, I went to these very staid and awkward church-sponsored dances every month as one of the youth dance coordinators. These dances were designed to bring together church-minded 15- and 16-year-olds from all over the county to chastely socialize. Speed-dating, line-dancing, and amateur moonwalk contests were extremely popular. I was required to attend these events; the thinking went that if the coordinators didn't show up, no one would. In retrospect, this was a cannily self-aware policy!One month I invited a couple school friends to a dance hosted in a particularly rural part of the county. This dance was uniquely awful; for one thing, it was held in what was obviously a gym, and decorated with Christmas lights and tablecloths. Most of the ceiling lights were dimmed except for one side of the room where parent chaperones sat in a row under blindingly bright lights and watched everyone like hawks.Around 11 the dance wound down and there were only a few people on the floor. This was when the DJ announced the last song of the night: the chicken dance! Apparently the chicken dance was extremely popular in this rural area, or maybe it was some kind of in-joke, but the whole party started up again. Everyone who was sitting got up and ran to the floor and started shaking their rear ends and making little duck mouths with their hands. Kids were running into the hallways to get their friends. Several people literally sprinted out of the bathroom when they heard the music, already flapping their arms en route. As I watched everyone having the times of their lives from the side of the room, slumped in a chair, pretty certain that my friends would never accept an invitation from me again, I thought - not for the last time - "I... need to get a different job."Aaand a shorter one: Today, I was brushing my teeth when a spider dropped on a line of web out of my hair. FML. I actually think there might be similar ones to this already up on FML already, which makes me feel better because apparently I am not the only one with hair that spiders like to nest in; well, such is the hope!

Clic to see the illustration on Fmylife.com!

It seems like to us you are the perfect protagonist to illustrate an FML. Many thanks Sara!

If you want to be the next published artist, send an email to alice@fmylife.com including a link to your website/blog. If you don't have one, attach some of your drawings. But DON'T send your illustration right away! You need first to get in touch with Alice, who will tell you what you have to do!

Hello, hello! We don't know why you say goodbye, we say hello, but never mind. During August, FML will be providing you with artists sending us "second round" illustrations or comics: Sara Bloem, Tony Piro and Maxime Dupont.

Come together, right now, to welcome Dan Long that you may know thanks to his famous Lindsey and her original ringtone, that has rang out across the universe. It rang so much that it now gives us headaches, but thanks to Doctor Robert, we're so much better, here, there and everywhere. And now, we're going to start the interview, with a little help from my friends. When we first published Dan, he was a 27-year-old man, who had just started his webcomic. Now, Edmund Finney's Quest is one of the most successful webcomics on the Internet, and we're not afraid to say it's one of our favourites. What changed in a year? Edmund still hasn’t found the meaning of life, the people he meets are way stranger, his comic panels are bigger, and Dan's humor has been cranked up a notch.

One year after your first interview, we would like to know what are your current projects.

Dan Long : My main project is still my webcomic called “Edmund Finney’s Quest to Find the Meaning of Life” at http://eqcomics.com, but other projects include doing artwork for MAD Magazine, doing illustrations for fan-submitted sketch titles at http://eqcomics.tumblr.com, and working on random art projects in my free time that are just for me. I also enjoy writing short stories, which I haven’t done in a while, so I might get more into that soon.

What inspires you?

Dan Long : My main three comic inspirations are Bill Watterson (of Calvin & Hobbes), Berke Breathed (of Bloom County, Outland, and Opus), and Gary Larson (of The Far Side). Whenever I have writer’s block while brainstorming comics, flipping through some of their collections really helps inspire me and get the creative juices going. My main movie influence would be the Monty Python movies, specifically “Monty Python and the Holy Grail.” I just love comedy based in a world of absurd strangers, and this movie hits that mark. Also, a little-known fact is that when I write Edmund Finney’s dialogue, his voice in my head is a British accent. As far as an artistic influence, I’d say both Tim Burton and Edward Gorey. I love dark, twisted art, and Burton and Gorey do it perfectly. I’ve had several readers compare my artwork to Edward Gorey, and though I don’t agree that my artwork is anywhere near Gorey’s quality, I couldn’t be more flattered by that compliment.

What makes you laugh the most?

Dan Long : I think one of the times when I laughed the hardest I ever have was watching “Monty Python and the Holy Grail.” Much of the movie is funny, but there’s the particular scene where Sir Lancelot storms a castle to save a prince (that he thought was a princess). I think I had to stop the movie and catch my breath after that scene. You’ll have to see it if you don’t know what I’m talking about. Other than that, I love stand-up comedy. I like the clever kind, like Mitch Hedburg and Brian Regan, not the crude kind with sex and drug jokes and lots of cursing. I just think crude humor is too simple and just gets cheap laughs. So a lot of today’s stand-up comedy doesn’t make me laugh as much as it used to because there’s more and more crude humor comics out there.

Why made you want to draw another FML, and why did you choose this FML story

Dan Long : I love illustrating ideas in general, which is why I set up my tumblr page at http://eqcomics.tumblr.com where my readers can submit sketch titles and I pick random ones out of the batch and draw them. I think it helps with my creativity to think outside of my own brain and work on something I wouldn’t have thought of myself. FMyLife is perfect for that, since they are real anecdotes and they are fun to twist around into something even more absurd.??

Do you have your own FML anecdote that you can share us?

Dan Long : Yes. I got a new car, and within 5 months it had been hit by 6 different people, all while it was parked outside at various locations, and each of them drove off. I just came back to a new dent in my car each time. FML

Well, maybe they’d ingested too much Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. Oh, and we would like to explain to the FML audience why there were so many Beatles references in this article: Dan Long is Paul McCartney's look-alike. P.S: we love you Dan.

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Hello everybody! We hope you finished last week's cake because today we're welcoming a new artist today, along with his special cat, who is certainly not on a diet. You may already know him thanks to his webcomic, animations, maybe even thanks to his book. If not, let us introduce you to one of the best (and gluttonous) cat in the world: Simon's cat!

-What's your real name?-Simon Tofield

-How old are you?-39

-Where do you live?-Bedfordshire, England.

-What do you do for a living?-I'm an animator, illustrator, director and author.

-What's your story?-I've loved animation and drawing since I was a little kid, watching Saturday morning cartoons. I went on to study animation at college, after which I found work as a junior animator. Since then I've worked on all sorts of different projects on a freelance basis, but now I work mostly on my series, Simon's Cat.

-What are your projects?-Simon's Cat started off as an online series of animations. And later on I was lucky enough to be offered a Simon's Cat book deal. So my time is spent producing new Simon's Cat films and also doing A LOT of drawing for the books.

-Tell us more about your website.-My website is called www.simonscat.com. It started just as a place to show my films, but now it's the hub of all sorts of exciting things related to Simon's Cat. So I have all the Simon's Cat films there to watch, as well as links and info about all the other goings on in Simon's Cat's world.

-What inspires you ?-There are alot of other talented artists out there that I really admire. I especially like Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson, as well as The Far Side series by Gary Larson. And of course my four cats, Hugh, Jess, Maisy and Teddy.

-What makes you laugh the most?-Old Laurel and Hardy films still make me laugh to this day.

-Why did you choose this FML?-My second book is all about Simon's Cat's adventures beyond his garden fence. He meets a lot of new animal friends along the way, and this FML reminded me a lot of the book. I liked the way the cat brought home so many different animals but never killed them. He sounded like a real life Simon's Cat.

-Do you have your own FML anecdote that you can share us?-I do a lot of painting at home. One hot sunny day I was painting in the garden, with a nice cold cup of water by my side to keep me refreshed. Then Hugh, who is one of my cats, came by to see what I was doing and jumped up onto the wall next to me. While demonstrating to Hugh my painting techniques, (he was mesmerised by the paintbrush movements), I instinctively reached for a gulp of water. Seconds later I was coughing up the dirty contents of my paintbrush washing cup, heaving acrylic from my stomach onto the grass. Hugh had knocked over my drinking water, leaving only my paintbrush water on the wall in an identical disposable plastic cup. He didn't seem as impressed by my painting afterwards.

Thank you so much Simon for your illustration, your cat never stops entertaining us!And many thanks to Mike Cook, without whom this Simon's Cat special day wouldn't have happened.

If you want to be the next published artist, send an email to alice@fmylife.com including a link to your website/blog. If you don't have one, attach some of your drawings. But DON'T send your illustration right away! You need first to get in touch with Alice, who would like to thank Yousra who is such a chatoune, who will tell you what you have to do!

It’s brown, and it’s simply delicious. Some of the more twisted minds amongst you will think we’re talking about poop, but actually, it’s chocolate. We simply love the stuff, we can’t enough of it, and we feel deeply sorry for those poor people who are allergic to this gift from the Gods. Black, white, with nuts, in a mound of ice cream or in soap, it’s always a real pleasure, and we love our love handles if they were a product of chocolate consumption. May God, Xenu and Billy Idol bless chocolate, as well as today’s artist who did a chocolate flavored interview.

-What's your name and surname?-Michelle Chen

-How old are you?-22

-Where do you live?-Long Island, New York

-What do you do for a living?-At the moment I'm working for a web start-up, but am looking to enter the CG industry.

-What's your story? (school, job..)-Grew up in the boonies of Massachusetts, went through my awkward phase in New York. I just graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia (seriously just -- finished my last summer class on Monday whooo) with a Computer Science / Art-ishdegree.

-What are your projects?-I'd love to make a 3D animated short or a webcomic in my own time.

-What inspires you (artists, movies, etc..)?-I'm inspired by campy 80's culture, electro pop, and hard working people. Two other featured FML artists, loish and ravenskar, areactually some of my favorites :]

-They also are some of our favorites too ! What makes you laugh the most?-Extremely lame jokes and puns.

-Why did you choose this FML?-Probably because I was hungry.

-Do you have your own FML anecdote that you can share us?-Oh do I ever. One time when I was in high school, I was waiting in the car while my mom went shopping. I saw my friend and her family walking past me in the parking lot and I opened the door to say hi -- little did I know, she had locked the car with her remote control, which activates the alarm upon an attempt to open a door and re-locks all doors. So I ended up trapped in a blaring car, pressing my face to the window while everyone ran inside to find my mother and I very quickly died of embarrassment, haha.

That is a FML moment. Thank you for your delicious illustrationMichelle ma belle !

Michelle’s website : http://michichen.tumblr.com If you want to be the next published artist, send an email to alice@fmylife.com including a link to your website/blog. If you don't have one, attach some of your drawings. But DON'T send your illustration right away! You need first to get in touch with Alice, who's still in London with Simon, who will tell you what you have to do!